February 07, 2014

Sponsor giveaway: The Art of Journaling workshop from Scrapaneers.com

THE GIVEAWAY:One blog reader will win a seat in the Art of Journaling with Scrapaneer instructor Amanda Taylor (Check out Amanda's intro video to get an idea of what this class is all about.) In this 3-week workshop, you’ll learn how to build your journaling outside the box and into fun shapes like paint swishes, swirls, and scribbles then craft an entire portrait using nothing but text!

Amanda’s unique methods work well for both digital and hybird scrapbookers and class includes video lessons for Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Elements users. You'll never look at your journaling the same way again!

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Waow, awesome giveway (and I'm a huge fan of Amanda's)!
I'm more traditional with my journaling and could definitely use some tips to journal outside the box.
Thanks for the chance... fingers crossed ;)

AHH, another amazing giveaway! I need to develop my journaling in general, but this particularly would be extra fun to learn! I am already imagining all the christmas presents I can begin to make with this.

I'm such a newbie at all this digital stuff, but I'm hooked. All my life I've kept journals on and off. What I've done with my journals in the past, has been done by hand. Decoupage on the covers and doodles inside. I'm still doodling when ever I get a chance. Recent years my journaling has suffered, life with kids and a sailor husband has gotten the better of me, and I'm ready to get some input on how to do journaling it in an excting new way.

I usually just pick a spot on my layout (or pick a journaling card), pick a font or two (if doing a digital page) and go for it. Once I did do this digital page where I journaled on cloud embellishments using single words and then I duplicated the words, moved and rotated them a bit and lowered the opacity. Kind of as if I'd stamped the words twice without reinking in between. I liked the effect.

I am a traditionalist, also now being digital I can't hide my journaling in a pocket to be pulled out later. I can play with the font size though and keep the resolution so low that while the layout can be seen the teenaged angst can't be read. I have also journaled and then layered stuff all over it so as to make it illegible, was cathartic but I prefer making my journaling real and readable.

Let's see...used different size fonts, downloaded new fonts (that was a learning experience) and ...wait a minute...wrote my journal notes on my pictures! Not very creative! I need this class. I am keeping all fingers and toes crossed.
Thanks!!!

I am a traditionalist simply because I don't have the skills to be anything else. Would love to learn because I see so many wonderful journaling techniques out in space (the internet!) but I am a bit intimidated...you find the best ideas and links so thank you!

I usually journal in a box or sometimes on cut strips of paper. You would think someone with a degree in graphic design would play it up more, but I tend to struggle with journaling so I'm just happy to get it down on paper. Where I tend to be creative with text is with the title. I love making unique, eye-catching titles.

Like many others, I journal in a more traditional way...not because that is what I like, but am clueless about other ways to do it. This class would be so beneficial for me in my journey to stretch and grow in my scrapping. Thanks for the chance to win, Cathy. It sounds like a wonderful class.

This is so awesome! I thought I was walking on the wild side when I print my journaling on velum and put a sticker underneath! I would love to learn how to do this type of journaling. Thanks for the chance to win.

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Not sure how I was lucky enough to find this giveaway - what an awesome opportunity - maybe this is meant to be? sure hope so because I can't seem to find my stride for my journaling - kind of stuck, boring, I feel "tight" is the only way to describe it.
fingers crossed.............

I am also traditionalist it seems - the most creative so far was using a chalkboard and playing around with different chalk type fonts. I recently bought Photoshop Elements and would love to learn more because I believe that journaling is so important. I have been content with just getting the story on the page and have mostly deliberately used my own handwriting. As my scrapping improves so I think could my journaling! Thank you for this wonderful opportunity! I would love to be able to do something like this and impress the heck out of my 15 and 18 year old kids who tend to think my computer literacy is sadly lacking!

Oh this looks like so much fun! Thanks for the chance to win. :o) As for journaling, I tend to be fairly traditional (boring?) but I have been known to journal around the edge of a page or around a shape in a photo.

Oh we did this at the art app for ipad class that I took last night, there is a app that you can type what you want to write and you can paint and draw with it. Gotta go and look at my notes and see what it is...it was so very cool though.

Some of my favorite "journaling" is going through the gmail chats between my husband and I while he's at work and pull things out that are funny out of context. Also, I have an app where I keep track of the funny things my kid says, and that makes for some awesome journaling too.

I'm afraid when it comes to journaling, I am not a master. I'm lucky to get the words on the page. Coolest thing? Probably a wordle. :P Would love to take this class - looks amazeballs! Thanks for the chance.

I'm probably more of a traditionalist when it comes to journaling, but I a couple of times I've typed along a path to create a new affect. I really think journaling is one of the most important parts of scrapping. I have so many photos from my childhood (I'm now 66) and there is no journaling. I just wish I had the story "behind" many of the pics.

I think the funkiest thing I have done with type is when I had to design a book cover for a college project. The book was on Bach and so I did the type and the illustration along the lines of a stave. Really, not that imaginative but it looked good. At least I thought so.

What a wonderful give-away! I would love to up my game, so to speak. I am generally a traditionalist, but once, I did a Halloween layout of my daughter and used the web I created with string to hold my journaling. (Does that count as outside the box? lol)

My journaling is traditional. I try not to worry too much about the composition. I just try to enjoy the process of journaling. This class sounds like it would be pretty fun! Thank you for such a great giveaway!

My journaling is pretty basic, but I would love the opportunity to be challenged & taught by the experts in this field. It would be one of this years wishes come true if I won a spot in this class. Thanks for the chance to be in to win! Cheers

I've kept a traditional journal for years, but would love to step out of my comfort zone and include more graphic design. I like how it draws the reader in and makes them understand the deeper message. Plus, this is something that my middle school students would love.

Such inspiring ideas! I'm pretty much a traditionalist although occasionally I've managed to configure my text box to fit within a circle. And once I even cut a little puzzle-shaped piece out of the text box and put a single word on that. Of course it took lots of trial and error to make that work. I'd love to learn how to really do those kinds of things. Thanks so much for the opportunity to win.

I have no idea why, but I seem to clam up when it's time to journal...apart from who, when and where. I would love to be able to tell my stories properly and in a way that looks good as well. This looks awesome!!